the danger element

THE HIT LIST: February 6, 2017

My weekend was ridic. Fun at the very top but ended up with quite a plateful that I almost couldn’t get this week’s Hit List done. …I think I might take next week off too… we’ll see. As for this week, it’s a guarantee and we’re starting off with playlists host to some great stunt action and demo reels from around the web. And far from hiding my fandom in the age of Wonder Woman is the very soundtrack that now consumes you in a new stunt reel by Jessi Fisher, followed by an oldie-but-goodie revival from David Neyts, a late entry with Alix Schwartz (more on her later), John Nania and Alex Marshall-Brown. Rounding out the playlist are reels by Giordano Sabatini, Hannah Betts, Jerome Gaspard, Tianna Webberly, Jérémy Margalle and hard-hitting action star and co-star of Jesse V. Johnson’s Savage Dog, Cung Le! As for promotional assets, a select number […]

ELEMENTAL: An Interview With Actor, Writer, Fight Choreographer And Filmmaker John Soares

Lee B. Golden III

I have to say, it’s been pretty exciting going into the Fall season as I’m looking toward meeting and greeting some great people. In that time, I’ve had the privilege of reviewing some pretty good screeners, one of which recently brought me into the throes of actor, filmmaker and fight choreographer John Soares. Not to be outdone by his talents, anyone within conversational reach of Soares will gather his modesty and humility almost instantly. At the same time, strike up a conversation with him on film and you’ll find yourself sitting with one of the most inspired up-and-comers to date. And it certainly shows in his latest effort, The Danger Element, which bears a storied evolution over the past decade or more since its heyday as an idea put on paper. Soares recently signed a deal for the film’s release for which details now remain pending. Needless to say, however, […]

Review: John Soares’s THE DANGER ELEMENT (2016) Plays It Safe With Tons Of Action And Ingenuity

Lee B. Golden III

The past couple of weeks or so, for me, have been ravaged by work on top of updating the site, though I found myself stumbling upon a peculiar looking trailer at the time. It was untitled and it drew my curiousity enough to press the play button, and before I knew it, I was sampling a montage of action, science fiction and fantasy and martial arts, and above all else, actor Doug Jones in pure sinister fashion in what I later identified as the new film, The Danger Element, formerly a webseries and now an upcoming feature film from star and director John Soares. The newly-knit film, a crowdfunded lo-fi dieselpunk action adventure, took nearly a decade to fulfill after having its funding originally pulled at the time. Thankfully the project saw better turns of fortune and is now currently in the works for distribution with details pending. That said, […]

Catch The Trailer For Indie Steampunk Action Adventure, THE DANGER ELEMENT

Lee B. Golden III

Many moons ago in 2014, I shared a practice fight performed by the likes of action actors Dylan Hintz and independent banner Westhavenbrook’s own John Soares, the latter whose work I haven’t been at all familiar with until this week when I spotted a peculiar looking untitled trailer on YouTube. That trailer, however and for all intents and purposes, now signals the upcoming VHX release of Soares’s latest long-term labor, The Danger Element. The film sees actor, writer and director Soares as a member of a secret order of knights who, along with his sister and a government agent, lead a mission to retrieve an item that could resurrect his father from the dead. Having initially meant to be a feature film prior to having funding pulled following its pre-production launch in 2006, Soares sought to turn it into an action adventure webseries now partially funded thanks to a loyal […]